Tagipedia - a Wikipedia for Tags?

Posted on: February 19, 2009

Thinking about Semantic Web, crowdsourcing and mostly after reading a
recent blog post from
Andy
I came to believe that we need a 'Tagipedia' (Wikipedia for tags): a
place where anybody can tag any uniquely identified web resource (URL)
and thus gradually, collaboratively describe the entire Web in more
semantically sensible way.

Ironically, large social-bookmarking services (e.g. del.icio.us) have
enough data to start something like that, but they have not exposed it
in a meaningful way, yet. What we really need is an API call that would
return top 10 (or 20) most common tags, across all users for a specific
URL. Given that all kinds of widgets can be built, including
browser-extensions.